The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-29
IT'S NONE OF eUH BUSINESS.
The DrinEer only II Harmed And He
oniy Is Responsibie-Good fIiUsfFa-
lions of iha From Mad
ison Life,

lions of the Foregoing From Mad
ison Life.
Talking about its affecting no one bat
the drinker. said one of Madison's leading
contractors and buildcrs, in our Office the
other day. mot a week passes.but I see
the effects Of liquor on my work. I have
a crew of hands building a church ont here
It. 4 few weeks ago, I found them
on Monday morning, all on a general spree.
Not a man fit for work, and not one that
wouId do good work for two or three days.
l had to shut down for a week in order to
get them sobered up.
Il came back to Madison to look after
my building here. and found my work all
stopped. Ny masons were on duty, bat
they couldn't work. There wasn't 4 hod
carrier to be found. They were of ON a
drunk. don't want a drinking man in
my employ, but l am compelled to hire
them. \ man half full of liquor Will not
do as good work nor as much as he viii
sober.
Il was building q house for Mr.,
here in the city, and as we were doing a
very good job, he thought he would show
his appreciation by giving the workmen a
key of liquor. That started them and the
next day there was no work done. They
had gone on a spree. | allow 40 liquor
now among my hands while they are at
work"
III these crews Of builders, it is COM
monty the case that there are temperate
men. When the drinkers Ego off on a
spree, - these men are forced to lie idle,
and thus lose money that they might
otherwise earn. We doubt if there is a
workman in the city who has not seen Ibis
abuse often repeated. When these drink
ing workmen, these jolly good l~ivers, have
consumed their v wages, their own
vigor, virtue and skill i'll feeding their
baser appetites, they drift into the jails,
-poor-houses or more unfortunate, die,
leaving their families a part OF that great
family Of poor whom We have always with
us. The temperate workmen are called on
to pay $50 a week for the board Of all
iail prisoners and lunatics and not much
less for the paupers. We nave examples
of these things continually before us. One
man was sent from this city to the insane
asylum his week with delirium tremens.
Another, while crazy drunk, jumped from
a train, and now lies in the city hospital
both a charge to the county. These things
are constantly occurring. The industrious
and temperate always suffer with the
vicious and debauched..
Il don't think one-half Of the people of
this city have any idea of the amount OF
suffering caused by liquor here" said a
prominent lawyer of Madison not long
ago. Il remember an instance of it that
came under my notice last winter.
"My wife used to have a woman who
came regularly TODD washing and scrub
bling about the house. The woman's hus-
band was an old sot, who drank up every
thing he could get his hands Oh. The
wife was q very nice industrious woman,
in fact she did all the work and supported
herself and him.
cone day she didn't come to work as
usual, and the next day my wife asked me
TO 90 down aud see what was the matter
with her. Well, | went downt to tho little
hut where she lived and knocked. No
one answered, and | opened the door. 1t
was a bitter cold day. There wasn't a
spark Of fire in the atoye. The wood was
all gone. The woman was sick, and was
lying ia bed to keep from freezing. There
was nothing in the honac to eat except a
few raw potatoes, and these she had taken
to bed with her TO keep them from freezing.
"She had been unable to get out Of the
house for several days, and her husband
had only been homo once. Then he took
all the money she had in the house-two
dollars she had saved to buy a pair Of shoes
and had gone of to spend it in the sa-
looms.
II don't believe that this is a. very ex-
ceptional case in Madison"
There may be a saloon kceperor two in
this city who would not nave taken that
poor woman's shoes had they known the
circumstances Of the case, but there is not
a man among chem that would question
where that sot obtained his money, if the
money was laid on their bar for liquor.
They live by robbins hard working women
Of home, happiness, food and clothes.
What care they what woman freezes and
starves and dies, so long as the money
pours into their pockets? They laugh
when women weep, because for every tear
that falls, a copper drops into their treas
ury.-Madison, His., Prohibaienist.